I'm a girl born in the wrong decade. I belong in the 1960s or the 1970s in my opinion. I bleed tie dye, my theme music is anything 1960s rock or 1970s rock or metal. I'm a hippie through and through. But also a hippie who loves old metal music. I believe that violence never solves anything, so why resort to it to solve problems? With all the wars the world has seen, there should be a clue somewhere in there!

Life is what happens when you are making other plans~ John Lennon
An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind~Gandhi
The time is always right to do what is right~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Friday, September 27, 2013

50: For Your Life
49: The Song Remains the Same
48: In the Evening
47: Good Times Bad Times
46: Ten Years Gone
45: The Wanton Song
44: Your Time is Gonna Come
43: All My Love
42: Houses of the Holy
41: Thank You
40: Custard Pie
39: Since I've Been Loving You
38: In the Light
37: The Rain Song
36: Four Sticks
35: Bron-Y-Aur Stomp
34: The Rover
33: The Ocean
32: You Shook Me
31: The Battle of Evermore
30: Fool in the Rain
29: Celebration Day
28: Nobody's Fault But Mine
27: Communication Breakdown
26: Bring It on Home
25: Out on the Tiles
24: What Is and What Never Should Be
23: Immigrant Song
-Love it!
22: Achilles Last Stand
21: Heartbreaker/Living Loving Maid
20: Gallows Pole
19: Dancing Days
-The first Led Zep song I ever downloaded, lol!!
18: Friends
17: Going to California
16: Trampled Underfoot
-Love it!
15: Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You
14: Over the Hills and Far Away
13: When the Levee Breaks
12: That's the Way
11: Rock and Roll
-Love it!
10: No Quarter
9: How Many More Times
8: Misty Mountain Hop
7: Ramble On
-Love it!
6: In My Time of Dying
5: Dazed and Confused
4: Black Dog
3: Stairway to Heaven
-Love it!
2: Whole Lotta Love
-Love it now that I listen to them!!
1: Kashmir

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Since it's October, I wanna give a big, huge Happy Birthday wish to the following people:

Like almost every month, there sure seems to be a lot of British people born this month...

Julie Andrews
-I'm not sure why, but when I see her dressed like this, I have this feeling she could be a member of a royal family
-Birth name: Dame Julie Elizabeth Andrews. 'Dame' means she received an honorary knighthood
-DOB: 10/1/1935. Hey cool, her birthday is on the same day as mine, awesome!
-Where: Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England
-Going to be: 78
-Her best known film is Mary Poppins

Sharon Osbourne
-Yay!!! I love her! She is awesome. She cracks me up! She just speaks whatever is on her mind and it's funny!! She's still very pretty, for whatever age she is!
-Birth name: Sharon Rachel Osbourne
-DOB: 10/9/1952
-Where: Brixton, South London, England
-Going to be: 61
-Known by all as the wife of Black Sabbath front man John Osbourne aka 'Ozzy' Osbourne

John Lennon
-Birth name: John Winston Lennon
-DOB: 10/9/1940
-Where: Liverpool, England
-DOD: 12/8/1980
-Where: New York City, New York
-Going to be: 73
-Was murdered by a crazed fan weeks after the release of his Double Fantasy album

David Lee Roth
-DOB: 10/10/1953
-Where: Bloomington, Indiana
-Going to be: 60
-Best known as the lead singer of Southern California hard rock band Van Halen

Hiroyuki Sanada
-For being of Asian descent, where people think a good looking guy don't exist, what a hottie! Love his brown eyes!!
-Birth name: Hiroyuki Shimosawa
-DOB: 10/12/1960
-Where: Tokyo, Japan
-Going to be: 53
-Became the first Asian actor to play a role with the Royal Shakespeare Company

Monday, September 23, 2013

9/1/1939: Hitler's armies invade Poland during WWII
9/1/1983: Korean Airlines flight 007 was shot down by a Russian fighter jet while en route from New York to Seoul, killing all 269 people on board. It reportedly strayed over a secret Soviet military installation on the Kamchatka Peninsula9/1/1923: Boxer Rocky Marciano was born in Brockton, Massachusetts. He died in a plane crash in 1969

9/2/1666: The Great Fire of London begins in a bakery in Pudding Lane near The Tower. Over the course of 3 days, it destroys more than 13,000 houses and only 6 people died

9/2/1923: The first free elections were held in the Irish Free State after achieving independence from Britain9/2/1962: Soviets send arms to Cuba, resulting in the October Missile Crisis9/2/1963: Alabama governor George Wallace halts integration by surrounding Tuskegee High School with state troopers

9/2/1986: Christa McAuliffe, a 37 year old high school teacher, becomes the first "ordinary citizen" to go up in space. But she died with 6 other crew members in the Challenger shuttle explosion 74 seconds after liftoff

9/3/1833: The New York Sun is created. It marks the beginning of the 'penny press', inexpensive newspapers featuring human interest stories to be sold by paper boys

9/3/1838: Anti-slavery leader Frederick Douglass begins his escape from slavery by boarding a train in Baltimore dressed as a sailor. He rode to Wilmington, Delaware, where he took a steamboat to Philadelphia, and took a train to New York City, where he began the Underground Railroad

9/4/1609: Island of Manhattan is discovered by explorer Henry Hudson9/4/1781: Los Angeles is discovered by Spanish governor of California, Felipe de Neve, near the Native American village of Yang-Na9/5/1972: 11 members of the Israeli Olympic Team were killed during an attack on the Olympic Village in Munich by members of the Black September faction of the Palestine Liberation Army9/5/1997: Mother Teresa, who spent her life aiding the sick and poor of India, dies in Calcutta at age 87

9/6/1991: Leningrad was renamed St. Petersburg by Russian legislators following the collapse of the Soviet Union9/7/1940: "The London Blitz" begins. German Luftwaffe begin it's bombing campaign against London, nearly destroying everything in the city

9/11/2001: This day will be remembered forever! 4 large passenger planes were hijacked, then crashed in to the World Trade Center towers in New York City, killing nearly 3,000 people. 4 separate teams of Mideast terrorists, boarded the morning flights posing as passengers, then forcibly took over control of the aircraft. Two fully fueled jets, American Airlines Flight 11 carrying 92 people and United Airlines Flight 175 carrying 65 people had departed Boston for L.A. Both flights were diverted to New York where they were piloted into the World Trade Center. The impact and fire following it caused both of the 110 ton story buildings to collapse, killing 2,752 people including hundreds of rescue workers and employees in the towers. In addition, United Airlines flight 93, which departed from Newark, New Jersey headed for San Francisco, and American Airlines flight 77, which departed Dulles, Virginia for L.A. was hijacked. Flight 77 had 64 people on board and was diverted to Washington D.C. and piloted into the Pentagon building, killing all patrons on board and 125 military personnel in the Pentagon. Flight 93, with 44 people on board, was diverted to Washington D.C. as well and crashed in a field in Pennsylvania after passengers attempted to override the terrorists

9/12/1913: black athlete Jesse Owens is born in Oakville, Alabama. He won 4 medals in track and field at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany defeating the Nazi athletes and disappointing Nazi leader Adolf Hitler

9/13/1971: Attica state prison riot. National Guardsmen and State Police stormed Attica State Prison in Buffalo, N.Y. ending a 5 day prison riot. 31 prisoners and 11 guards were killed

9/14/1930: The Nazi Party becomes the second largest party in Germany following the election of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor9/14/1982: Princess Grace of Monaco died from an accident involving her car going off the side of the road in Monte Carlo. Princess Grace was American actress Grace Kelly, who married Prince Ranier III while filming the Hitchcock movie To Catch a Thief9/15/1916: Tanks were introduced into combat, at the Battle of the Somme, in WWI9/15/1857: British mystery author Agatha Christie was born in Torquay, England9/15/1908: General Motors is founded by William Durant in Flint, Michigan
9/18/1905: Swedish actress Greta Garbo is born in Stockholm, Sweden9/24/1957: President Dwight D. Eisenhower enforced racial integration of schools in Little Rock, Arkansas9/24/1936: Puppeteer and Muppets creator Jim Henson is born in Greenville, Mississippi. He is best known for creating The Muppets, and Sesame Street

9/26/1898: Composer George Gershwin is born in Brooklyn, N.Y. He is best known for Rhapsody in Blue and Porgy and Bess9/29/1829: Britain's "bobbies" made their first appearance. Greater London's Metropolitan Police force was established by an act of Parliament at the request of Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel, after whom they were nicknamed. They later became known as Scotland Yard, the site of their first headquarters

9/30/1955: Actor James Dean is killed in a car crash in California at age 24

It's always been known that if Gene Simmons is given a direct question, he'll give a direct answer, no holds barred. He talked to Rolling Stone Magazine to promote the new Kiss book "Nothin' to Lose" and was full of abrasive comments about the two former KISS players. Initially, he was dismissed as "the bad guy" in the firing of Peter Criss and Ace Frehley

"I am the bad guy," responded Simmons. "I won’t stand for drunks and alcoholics who get up on stage and consider it their birthright. I consider it a privilege to get up there and arrive on time and be sober, and I’ll be an a–hole to anybody who thinks otherwise. You know who else is an a–hole? Your teacher was an a–hole. Your parents are a–holes. Your drill sergeant was an a–hole. Because they wouldn’t let you get away with s—. Ace and Peter have had a lifetime of being losers. And not just with drugs and alcohol. They’re losers because of wrong decisions. You sleep in the bed you make. How many chances in life do you get? They were in and out of the band three different times. Why should they get another chance?" He also added "Anybody who gets angry at us are just small people with small dreams who never achieved anything and will always be angry,” argued Simmons later in the interview. “But they’re mostly angry with themselves for being losers."

Thank God Paul Stanley is my favorite. At least he's nice, sweet and loveable. And he don't do stupid crap like this!

A lot of girls in their pre-teens seem to go gaga for the British accented cuties in One Direction. I think they're sorta like The Beatles of a new generation

-English Irish pop boy band based in London, England
-Consists of Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson
-After they formed in 2010, they signed with Syco Records, Simon Cowell's record label and finished in 3rd place on the seventh series (season) of the British version of The X Factor
-"Live While We're Young" and "What Makes You Beautiful" are, so far, their biggest known hits

History
-They are often said to have formed a new "British Invasion" in the US
-After they went onto The X Factor, they failed to get to the "boys" category

-But it was Pussycat Doll singer Nicole Scherzinger, who was a guest judge, who suggested that they put together a 5 piece boy band at Wembley Stadium in London during the "bootcamp" phase. This let them qualify for a "group". For two weeks, they got together and got to know each other and Styles came up with the name of One Direction
-In Sept. 2011, they released their first major known hit, "What Makes You Beautiful". It reached #1 on the UK Singles Chart and #28 on the Billboard Hot 100, making it the highest British debut since 1998

-They made their first TV appearance on The Today Show at Rockefeller Center, where an estimated 15,000 fans waited eagerly
-Their album Up All Night was released in early 2012 because of their very high appeal with teens

-At the 2012 Olympic Games in London, they performed "What Makes You Beautiful" at the closing ceremony, which marked the handoff to Rio de Janeiro being the host of the 2016 Olympic Games.
-At the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards, they were nominated 3 times and won all 3 times, including one for Best New Artist

-In Nov. 2012, they released Take Me Home. The single on the album, "Live While We're Young" went into the top ten in every country it charted in and the second single "Little Things" debuted at #1 in the UK, which became something that made One Direction the youngest act in British chart history

-On August 30, 2013, they released a concert movie called One Direction: This is Us, where they show them doing a concert and take a behind the scenes look at getting prepared for the concert and other things. They said that they will donate $200,000 in English money to the Stand Up to Cancer charity from their 2014 Where We Are tour
-On. Nov. 25, 2013, they will release their Midnight Memories album. This album will be slightly more rock than pop, giving the guys a bit of an edgy touch. In my opinion, this is gonna be pretty cool, to see a boy band try their hand at rock. And with them being from London, they don't have to go far to find some rock inspiration

-In terms of their image, they are basically the "clean cut, parent friendly middle class pop band that girls can go gaga for". They're like Justin Bieber before he got to be an idiot. One Direction is described as starting a new "British Invasion" into the US. And something that is pretty cool is one of them has tattoos, how awesome!!

-Each member is described by one feature: Horan is the cute one, Malik is the quiet and mysterious one, Payne is the sensible one, Styles is the charming one, Tomlinson is the funny one
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